Cover Supervisor

Retford Oaks Academy is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated person to act as a Cover Supervisor. You will be required to supervise prepared lessons in the absence of a class teacher, ensuring that in doing so the students learning and development is continued and maintained. This is a permanent role.

Job Title: Cover Supervisor

Working hours: 32.5 hours per week - term time only

Salary:  Grade 4 (Actual salary £15,369 to £16,663)

Start date: May 2021

Closing date for applications: 11 April 2021

As a Cover Supervisor you will work under the guidance of teaching staff and with an agreed system of supervision, to implement work programmes with individual and groups in and out of the classroom.  This role includes supervision of whole classes during short term absence of teachers.

You will need to be:

• Reliable and punctual
• Used to working with young people, especially 11-19
• Adaptable, flexible, confident and calm under pressure
• Confident with behaviour management skills
• Well organised
• Show commitment to professional development
• Committed to education and teaching

Retford Oaks is an Ofsted good-rated academy with a dedication to excellence and place extremely high expectations on students and staff. We know that our staff team are our greatest resource. Therefore, we invest heavily in them and we know that this has helped us to develop our stable, supportive and high performing team. We know that we have a lot to offer someone who wants to feel respected and appreciated as an expert in their field.

We have an open door policy, so if you would like to come and see our academy in action, we would be more than happy to welcome you and show you what makes us ‘Oaks and Proud’. For an informal discussion or to visit the academy please contact Claire Rank, Academy Operations Manager at crank@retfordoaks-ac.org.uk 

Please note we reserve the right to close the post early once we have received a sufficient number of applicants, so we advise you to submit your application early to prevent disappointment.

The Diverse Academies and its Governors are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in their care and expects everybody working for the organisation to share this commitment.  To this end we actively seek DBS enhanced clearance check for everybody that is employed by us.